Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Protecting

Admins protect pages and images to prevent vandalism and assist in resolving content disputes, for example. There are different levels of protection.

Protecting or unprotecting a page

There is an edit war going on at xxxx and you need to protect the page.

• Ryan. I don't think the below instructions work. Please review.

1. Open xxxxx
2. At the top of xxxx, you will see a protect tab
3. Click the protect tab. This should bring you to a "confirm protection" page.
4. By default, protections last indefinitely. In the lower half of the confirm protection page, enter 5 days in the "Expires:" box.
5. Just below the Expires: box in the Reason: box, enter edit war
6. Press the confirm button.
7. Add {{protected}} to the top of the article you are protecting.

A truce has been declared and the edit war has stopped. It now is time to unprotect xxxx.

1. Open xxxxx
2. At the top of xxxx, you will see a protect tab
3. Click the protect tab. This should bring you to a "confirm protection" page.
4. By default, protections last indefinitely. In the lower half of the confirm protection page, enter 5 days in the "Expires:" box.
5. Just below the Expires: box in the Reason: box, enter edit war
6. Press the confirm button.
7. Add {{protected}} to the top of the article you are protecting.